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Science
Stay hopeful: coral continues to exceed expectations and withstand the impacts of climate change, despite being in an altered state.
Scientists are hoping to decode decades of mystery about the spade-toothed whale.
Groupers in Asia have been discovered to be two separate species of fish!
Do you know about the evolutionary journey of anglerfish?
Fisheries
The UK, EU and Norway have reached agreement on North Sea fishing opportunities for 2025.
Modern slavery continues to be a topic of contention in the UK fishing sector.
Small-scale fishers in Indonesia and China are experiencing similar obstacles to achieve sustainable coastal communities.
Fishers in Peru are helping to guard the coast from illegal fishing.
British Overseas Territories
The Cayman Islands government have released a new film called Our Global Ocean.
Following coral reefs in Little Cayman undergoing the ‘most extensive’ bleaching event on record last year, see how they are recovering here.
What devastation will Avian influenza cause the wildlife of South Georgia this year?
Marine Protection
Noise pollution is threatening the return of Norway’s whales.
A sorry site in Massachusetts: Stranded sea turtles and seals with shark bites.
Conservation
There is hope for right whales as solutions to whale-ship collisions continue to be explored.
Killer whales have found a new home in the Arctic Ocean!
The sustainability of the Pacific walrus population has been assessed for the next 75 years.
There are conservation efforts to recover threatened shark and ray populations in Raja Ampat.
Climate Crisis
A global climate change legal case has begun.
Some say that ‘it’s too late to halt the climate crisis’, with an unexpected ice collapse in the Antarctic, and deforestation continuing in Indonesia.
Changes in ocean density have been proven to be a key driver in the amount of carbon marine plankton can capture.
Millions of purple marsh crabs are disrupting the amount of carbon storage in salt marshes along the US East Coast. In addition, there are concerns that increasing temperatures may shrink wetland carbon sinks.
Plastics
Plastics continue to build up in the environment and cause health risks to wildlife and humans, yet talks to secure agreement between more than 200 countries on tackling plastic pollution ended in failure last week.
Are plastic eating bugs the answer?
Misc
The Norwegian government has paused its deep-sea mining plans in the Arctic.
Cattles new seaweed snacks: according to a new study, ‘feeding grazing cattle seaweed cuts methane emissions by almost 40%’
